He is
accused of
harshness
to boys that were placed under his care.
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[Footnote 26: The following is a literal
translation
of the song referred
to:--
Were I a little bird,
Had I two wings of mine,
I'd fly to my dear;
But that can never be,
So I stay here.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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"
XLIV
Then,
whirling
up his broadsword
With both hands to the height,
He rushed against Horatius,
And smote with all his might.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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'100 long canals':
the canals which run through the
splendid
gardens of Hampton Court, laid
out by William III in the Dutch fashion.
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Alexander Pope |
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BEFORE THE SNOW
Autumn is gone: through the blue
woodlands
bare
Shatters the rainy wind.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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"
THE TREE
AN OLD MAN'S STORY
I
Its roots are
bristling
in the air
Like some mad Earth-god's spiny hair;
The loud south-wester's swell and yell
Smote it at midnight, and it fell.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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XXX
Others, I am not the first,
Have willed more
mischief
than they durst:
If in the breathless night I too
Shiver now, 'tis nothing new.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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They burn with an unquenched and smothered fire
Consumed by longings over which they brood,
Oblivious
of time, without desire,
Alone and lost in their great solitude.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Self-support should
maintain
strict limits:
More than enough is not what I want.
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Protect me always from like excess,
Virgin, who bore, without a cry,
Christ whom we
celebrate
at Mass.
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He entered the service of Charles of Anjou, and probably accompanied him (1265) on his Naples expedition; in 1266 he was a
prisoner
in Naples.
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Troubador Verse |
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NOT EVERY DAY FIT FOR VERSE
'Tis not ev'ry day that I
Fitted am to prophesy:
No, but when the spirit fills
The
fantastic
pannicles,
Full of fire, then I write
As the Godhead doth indite.
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Robert Herrick |
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discordant vestments through the trees,
And the red banner
fluctuates
in the breeze; 1827.
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"
I should like to have
visitors
come and discuss philosophy
And not to have the tax-collector coming to collect taxes:
My three sons married into good families
And my five daughters wedded to steady husbands.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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She
returned
Baudelaire's love.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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- All this transformation
once
barbarous
and
material
external -
now
moral
and within
21.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Wail out your anguish, till it pierce the sky,
In shrieks of deep despair, ill-omened,
desperate!
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Aeschylus |
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HEROLD:
Dass die
Hochzeit
golden sei,
Solln funfzig Jahr sein voruber;
Aber ist der Streit vorbei,
Das golden ist mir lieber.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Page 38
146
I haue hade robbys maney and fayre,
Nowe woll I next me were the ayre,
Tyll I maye some
tydynges
here
of my sone that was so dere.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Must not Nature be
persuaded
many times?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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quis ullos homines beatiores
uidit, quis Venerem
auspicatiorem?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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--
'Ef your name's Biglow, an' your given-name
Hosee,' sez he, 'it's arter you I came:
I'm your gret-gran'ther
multiplied
by three.
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James Russell Lowell |
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And weary was the long patrol,
The thousand miles of
shapeless
strand,
From Brazos to San Blas that roll
Their drifting dunes of desert sand.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Macduffe
is missing, and your Noble Sonne
Rosse.
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I do not sing here to the common tune,
Claiming that
everything
beneath the moon
Is corruptible and subject to decay:
But rather I say (not wishing to displease
Those who would argue by contraries)
That this great All must perish some fine day.
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Thus, we do not necessarily
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Their result is
absolutely
nil.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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The good
Bishop of Montpellier, who knew the family, said that Charles was a
little crazy--second
marriages
usually bring woe in their train.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Yes, here within thy
sanctified
walls there's a soul in each object,
ROMA eternal.
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It
mattered
nothing then.
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2
A traveler of
thoughts
and years, of peace and war,
Of youth long sped and middle age declining,
(As the first volume of a tale perused and laid away, and this the second,
Songs, ventures, speculations, presently to close,)
Lingering a moment here and now, to you I opposite turn,
As on the road or at some crevice door by chance, or open'd window,
Pausing, inclining, baring my head, you specially I greet,
To draw and clinch your soul for once inseparably with mine,
Then travel travel on.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Although "Eldorado" was published during Poe's lifetime, in 1849,
in the "Flag of our Union," it does not appear to have ever
received
the
author's finishing touches.
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Poe - 5 |
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Hardly had day dawned before the walls of Placentia
bristled
with 22
defenders, and the fields glittered with the soldiers' armour.
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Tacitus |
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50 net
"Sleep on, I lie at heaven's high oriels Over the stars that mumur as they go
Lighting
your lattice window (ar b low;
And every star some of the glory spells Whereof I know.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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And sometimes into cities she would send
Her dream, with feast and rioting to blend;
And once, while among mortals dreaming thus,
She saw the young Corinthian Lycius
Charioting foremost in the envious race,
Like a young Jove with calm uneager face,
And fell into a
swooning
love of him.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Rilke - Poems |
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And then they sleep, and golden dreams anon,
Born as the busy day's last murmurs die,
In swarms
tumultuous
flitting through the gloom
Their breathing lips and golden locks descry.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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formed to eat, and be despised, and die,
Even as the beasts that perish, save that thou
Hadst a more
splendid
trough, and wider sty:
HE!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Lewis Carroll |
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"
As day was dawning the party now broke up, each one
draining
his glass
and taking his leave.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Sire, if
compassion
can sway a king,
I beg you to revoke your harsh ruling;
For what lost me my love, his victory,
I leave him my fortune; if he'll forgo me;
That I may weep in some sacred cloister,
To my last breath, for father and for lover.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Qu'importe ta betise ou ton
indifference?
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Whoever dies
somewhere
in the world
Dies without cause in the world
Looks at me.
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Rilke - Poems |
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The
difference
this betwixt the evil pair,
Faithless to God--for laws without a care--
One was the claw, the other one the will
Controlling.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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I said to my heart, my feeble heart;
Haven't we had enough of
sadness?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Racing dawn, the
carriages
come home,--
And the girls with their high baskets full of fruit.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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In digging
among some ancient ruins he found many crucifixes of black and red
colour, from whence the Portuguese conjectured, says Osorius, that the
Anchedivian islands had in former ages been
inhabited
by
Christians.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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He was the
mightiest
man of valor
in that same day of this our life,
stalwart and stately.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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His songs are not exactly hymns;
He never learned them in the choir;
And yet they brace his dragging limbs
Although they miss the sacred fire;
Although his choice and
cherished
gems
Do not include "The Watch upon the Thames.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Nothing indeed can be more interesting than to note the touches, the
substitution of which measured the whole
distance
between mediocrity and
excellence.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Encouraged
by this hope, he mounts 1827.
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William Wordsworth |
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Ister to thee, and Tanais fleet,
And Nile that will not tell his birth,
To thee the
monstrous
seas that beat
On Britain's coast, the end of earth,
To thee the proud Iberians bow,
And Gauls, that scorn from death to flee;
The fierce Sygambrian bends his brow,
And drops his arms to worship thee
XV.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Now virgins came bearing
Caskets
securely
locked, richly wreathed with grain.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Ov' e 'l buon Lizio e Arrigo
Mainardi?
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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In
jealousy
of a Hebe's fate
Rising over this cup at your lips' kisses,
I spend my fires with the slender rank of prelate
And won't even figure naked on Sevres dishes.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Is it for me, the
favourite
of my lord?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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_George Herbert Clarke_
FRANCE
Because for once the sword broke in her hand,
The words she spoke seemed
perished
for a space;
All wrong was brazen, and in every land
The tyrants walked abroad with naked face.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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That makes the ghost seem nigh me
Of a splendor that came and went,
Of a life lived somewhere, I know not
In what diviner sphere,
Of memories that stay not and go not,
Like music heard once by an ear
That cannot forget or reclaim it,
A
something
so shy, it would shame it
To make it a show,
A something too vague, could I name it,
For others to know,
As if I had lived it or dreamed it,
As if I had acted or schemed it,
Long ago!
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James Russell Lowell |
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In the year 1827,
there were scarcely any alterations made on the text of the poem, as
printed in 1820; still fewer were added in 1832; but for the edition of
1836 the whole was
virtually
rewritten, and in that state it was finally
left, although a few significant changes were made in 1845.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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A Fan
(Of Mademoiselle Mallarme's)
With nothing of
language
but
A beating in the sky
From so precious a place yet
Future verse will rise.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Now,
dwellers
afar,
ocean-travellers, take from me
simple advice: the sooner the better
I hear of the country whence ye came.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Now the ancient river,
That all day under the arch was
polished
jade,
Becomes the ghost of a river, thinly gleaming
Under a silver cloud.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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His
outspoken
language made him
many enemies, and disgraceful reports were purposely spread abroad
concerning him, which resulted in a duel in which he was mortally
wounded by his brother-in-law, George Danthes.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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"
"I
remember
certain lonely beaches," Wearily I answered, "nothing more.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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These are little known to the
ordinary
visitor at Rome.
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Shelley |
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241: '_Madam, your whole self cannot but be perfectly
wise; for your hands have wit enough to keep
themselves
warm.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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E'en to those shores is Ithaca renown'd,
Where Troy's
majestic
ruins strew the ground.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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And then,
foreseeing
all thy life, I added:
But these thou wilt forget; and at the end
Of life the Lord will punish thee.
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Longfellow |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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NEATH
trembling
tree tops to and fro we wander
Along the beech-grove, nearly to the bower,
And see within the silent meadow yonder,
The almond tree a second time in flower.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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It was not frost, for on my flesh
I felt
siroccos
crawl, --
Nor fire, for just my marble feet
Could keep a chancel cool.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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from thy shady brow,
Thou small, but
favoured
spot of holy ground!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Will you (the Major's with the hounds,
The happy tenants share his rounds;
Coila's fair Rachel's care to-day,
And
blooming
Keith's engaged with Gray)
From housewife cares a minute borrow--
That grandchild's cap will do to-morrow--
And join with me a moralizing,
This day's propitious to be wise in.
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Robert Forst |
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Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Arias
I
addressed
him from you, about the insult.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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references
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or:
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Such, royal
Agamemnon!
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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But perhaps the most remarkable
characteristic
of Pope is his manly
independence.
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Alexander Pope |
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This is pea-soup, as
exquisite
as it is fine; 'tis Pallas the
victorious goddess at Pylos who crushed the peas herself.
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Aristophanes |
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Or
quenched
the fires lit by their breath?
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
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Wilde - Poems |
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How
deserved
your fame: they speak it everywhere!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Under his
spurning
feet the road
Like an arrowy Alpine river flowed,
And the landscape sped away behind
Like an ocean flying before the wind,
And the steed, like a bark fed with furnace fire,
Swept on, with his wild eye full of ire.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Which in your
tablets appear--the profits or
expenses?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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How heavy do I journey on the way,
When what I seek, my weary travel's end,
Doth teach that ease and that repose to say,
'Thus far the miles are
measured
from thy friend!
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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HE
ACKNOWLEDGES
THE WISDOM OF HER PAST COLDNESS TO HIM.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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No darker joy than this
Golden amazement now
Shall dare intrude into our dazzling lives:
Stain were it now to know
Mists of sweet warmth and deep
delicious
colour,
Those lovable accomplices that come
Befriending languid hours.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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The tablet of the
Assyrian
version which
carries the portion related on the new tablet has not been found.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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The next year he
succeeded, and brought away some
thousands
of drawings of the most striking
views from all three Presidencies and from the tropical island.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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You must need keep your
patience
yet awhile,
For I have some few mouthfuls of sweet air
To swallow before I have grown to be as civil
As any other dust.
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Yeats |
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I remember well
My games of shovel-board at Bishop's tavern
In the old merry days, and she so gay
With her red paragon bodice and her
ribbons!
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Longfellow |
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